Grammar
Reference topics, verb conjugation tables, and example sentences in real use.
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🏠 Nouns & possessives — how nouns change for "my / your / his / our".
Reference topics
Short explanations with audio examples and a practice drill at the end.
The alphabet & the 9 special lettersBasics
Kazakh is written in Cyrillic — 42 letters. If you can read Russian you already know 33 of them; the 9...
Vowel harmony — the engine of KazakhBasics
Almost every Kazakh suffix comes in two flavours. Which one you pick is decided by one simple rule — and...
Personal pronouns & saying "I am…"Basics
Kazakh has no word for "is" or "are" in the present tense. Instead, a personal ending attaches to the word...
Plurals — лар, лер, дар, дер, тар, терBasics
One plural suffix, six spellings. Vowel harmony picks the vowel; the word's last consonant picks the first...
Possessives — my, your, ourBeginner
"My book" in Kazakh is менің кітабым — the word for "my" AND an ending on the noun. The ending alone is...
Locative case — in, at, on (-да/-де/-та/-те)Beginner
Where English uses the prepositions in, at and on, Kazakh puts one ending on the noun itself: үйде — at...
Dative case — to, towards (-ға/-ге/-қа/-ке)Beginner
Movement towards something — "to school", "to Almaty", "to my friend" — is one ending in Kazakh. It is...
Ablative case — from, out of (-дан/-ден/-тан/-тен/-нан/-нен)Beginner
The mirror image of the dative: movement away. Алматыдан — from Almaty, жұмыстан — from work. It also...
Asking questions — ма/ме/ба/бе/па/пе + question wordsBeginner
Yes/no questions get a little particle at the end of the sentence; everything else uses a question word....
Saying no — verb negation, емес and жоқBeginner
Kazakh has three different "not"s, and they are not interchangeable: a suffix inside the verb, емес after...
Verbs
Tap a verb to see its conjugation in present, past, and future intent — with example sentences below each tense.
болу
to be / to become
бару
to go
келу
to come
жеу
to eat
ішу
to drink
көру
to see
білу
to know
айту
to say / to tell
жасау
to do / to make
алу
to take
беру
to give
сүю
to love
ұйықтау
to sleep
ойлау
to think
оқу
to read / to study
жазу
to write
жүру
to walk / to go
жүгіру
to run
тыңдау
to listen
үйрену
to learn
күлу
to laugh
жұмыс істеу
to work
тұру
to live / to stand
ұнау
to please / to like
сату
to sell